penannular bracelet
- Museum number
- 1849,0301.3
- Description
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Gold penannular bracelet with rounded body and hollow tubular section. The expanded terminals are conical shaped and hollow. The ends and the terminals are decorated with a fine geometric incised pattern. The decoration of the ends and of the outer part of the terminals consists of a series of triangles filled with oblique lines. The inner edge of the terminals is decorated with a band of straight intersecting lines. Part of the two terminals could have been lost as both have rims that are slightly concave. A join runs parallel along the inner body of the bracelet forming the hollow tubular section.
- Production date
- 1000BC-750BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 89.36 millimetres
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Weight: 101.70 grammes
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Thickness: 14.29 millimetres (body centre)
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Thickness: 9.52 millimetres (body end)
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Width: 17.03 millimetres (body centre)
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Width: 9.29 millimetres (body end)
- Curator's comments
- Mr Windele notes in one of his volumes of miscellanea (RIA MS 12 17, 155-6) that the finder's name was Owen Sullivan (referred to as Eugene Sullivan by Roger Downing) and that the find-place was the site of an ancient fort, the article having been found under the root of a hawthorn. There are four ringforts in the townland of Brahalish noted in the Archaeological Inventory of County Cork (Power et al. 1992, 143-4, nos 1223-6). The original documents talk of the findspot being Brahalish, Four Mile Water (Cahill 1994, 67-69)
References:
Cahill, M., 1994. Mr. Anthony's Bog Oak Case of Gold Antiquities, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy.94C, 3, 53-108.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1849
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1849,0301.3